Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2001
2 tornado watches in May 2001. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20011 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 35 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 38 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barber County2
- Barton County2
- Clark County2
- Comanche County2
- Edwards County2
- Ellis County2
- Ellsworth County2
- Ford County2
- Graham County2
- Hodgeman County2
- Kiowa County2
- Lincoln County2
- Mitchell County2
- Ness County2
- Osborne County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pratt County2
- Rice County2
- Rooks County2
- Rush County2
- Russell County2
- Stafford County2
- Trego County2
- Clay County1
- Cloud County1
- Dickinson County1
- Harper County1
- Harvey County1
- Jewell County1
- Kingman County1
- McPherson County1
- Marion County1
- Ottawa County1
- Phillips County1
- Reno County1
- Republic County1
- Saline County1
- Sedgwick County1
- Smith County1
- Sumner County1
22 more counties
- Washington County1
- Finney County1
- Gove County1
- Grant County1
- Gray County1
- Greeley County1
- Hamilton County1
- Haskell County1
- Kearny County1
- Lane County1
- Logan County1
- Meade County1
- Morton County1
- Scott County1
- Seward County1
- Sheridan County1
- Sherman County1
- Stanton County1
- Stevens County1
- Thomas County1
- Wallace County1
- Wichita County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.